Property Listings Near Court House Area and Town Lands
Real estate brief listing describes J. W. Batts holdings with 105 acres one mile from courthouse, 25 cultivated and rest pasture, fenced with six wires at 150 dollars. Northeast county post oak land 400 acres at 2.50 per acre. Southeast town plot 1.25 acres with small cottage tenant house well priced at 751. Four block from M Street brick cistern house 1250. Quarter block near Allen Academy 250 dollars. 76 feet railroad frontage Otto Boehme property with part sale. City lots near school at 100 each. 13 acres south town with new 4 room house and wells at 1000.
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Court House
Allen Academy
Otto Boehme
For Sale Lamar Bethea Real Estate Agent Listing
92 acres near A M College suitable for dairy and hog farm priced at 1000 with 34 acres on courthouse share. Includes seven room house barn outbuildings fine water well and a two story house option. Also 69 acres on Wixon creek Pearson place 49 acres cultivated plus creek bottom land. Will also sell 29 acres with six room house two underground brick cisterns one mile west of city near I G N R R. Willing to consider trade for city property. Land described as numerous and going cheap.
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A. & M. College
City
Wixon Creek
Pearson Place
Laredos International Birthday Festival Celebrates George Washington
Citizens of Laredo Texas and New Laredo Mexico have grown a local Birthday celebration into a large annual event on February 22 and 23. The program includes bull fights, cattle roping, torchlight parades, naval fireworks, mock battles, pageants, flower carnival and musical contests. Excursion fares to Laredo and Monterey Mexico are offered with a ten day stopover permit. details from ticket agents or D. J. Prtor Palestine Texas.
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Laredo
Texas
New Laredo
Mexico
George Washington
Aest
Monterey
D. J. Prtor
G. P
T. A
R. R. Palestine
Mitchell's Report on Miners Wage Convention Proceedings
Indianapolis January 20 The Miners National Wage convention opened with 900 delegates as John Mitchell presented his annual report. He voiced confidence in the outcome of workers' claims and noted fewer strikes due to joint agreements and cordial relations where unions are recognized. The report included Clarence Darrow's opinion opposing union incorporation as unjust and insulting to labor.
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Indianapolis
John Mitchell
Mitchell
Clarence Darrow
Chicago
Fairs’ Valuables Misplaced in Paris to San Francisco Trade
The Call reports a sensational theft upon the late Mr. and Mrs. Fair’s arrival from Paris. A $10,000 Russian sable coat and a $15,000 pearl necklace were swapped for cheap imitations before consular handover. Other jewelry and items reportedly missing. coats and scarf pins among the recovered effects. Steps launched to locate the missing articles.
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San Francisco
Europe
Paris
Mrs. Fair
Charles Fair
Crown Princess of Saxony Granted Free Mobility
Berlin January 20 The crown Princess of Saxony may change her abode at will after surrendering all titles for 7500 dollars annually. She enjoys immunity from arrest and must inform Saxony and Austrian courts of any move. It is assumed Dresden and Vienna approved her departure from Geneva to Mentona.
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Berlin
Saxony
Dresden
Vienna
Geneva
Mentona
Bomb Blast Hits Hoboken Water Works Front
A bomb charged with giant powder exploded in the boiler house of the Hackensack Water Company in West Hoboken. The blast blew down two heavy doors and shifted boilers while a fireman and his assistant were stunned and bruised. About seventy five tons of coal stored in bins. theft motive suspected to divert attention from coal thieves.
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New York
Hackensack Water Company
West Hoboken
Ninth Field Artillery Sail for Manila
Chicago January 20 The Ninth Field Artillery unit of 120 men has gone to San Francisco. They sail February 1 for Manila in the Philippines for service overseas.
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Chicago
Ninth Field Artillery
San Francisco
Manila
Tillman to resign as soon as legislature opens
Augusta report towns Tillman lieutenant governor will resign his office at the opening of the legislature. The Herald special from Columbia South Carolina notes the move as pending.
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Augusta
Columbuia
S. C
Tillman
National Baseball League Ratifies Seven Sections in New Agreement
Cincinnati January meeting sees the National Baseball League approve seven sections of the national agreement after a long session. New York and Brooklyn clubs opposed the package as a whole though they backed most proposals. The fifth section on circuit structures sparked contention over admitting an American club into New York.
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Cincinnati
National Baseball League
New York
Brooklyn
Trial of Rush Banker in Senatobia Embezzlement Case
Jackson Mississippi January 20 The trial of Phillip A Rush a banker of Senatobia charged with embezzling 100000 from the state treasury during Treasurer Stowers administration began Monday in circuit court and is expected to last about a week Governors Longino and other state officials are summoned as witnesses A requisition for John Armistead of Memphis an important witness will be sent to Governor Frazier of Tennessee after his inauguration A prior trial six months ago on the same charge ended with a hung jury
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Jackson
Miss
Phillip A. Rush
Senato Bial
Stowers
Longino
John Armistead
Memphis
Frazier
Tennessee
McMillin
Rush
Richmond observes Lee’s birthday with closures and parade
In Richmond Virginia on January 20 officers banks and schools closed in observance. A parade by the Seventieth regiment and a salute at Lee Circle by the Richmond Howitzers followed by evening gatherings of Confederate Veterans camps and Daughters of the Confederacy. The Daughters awarded crosses of honor to surviving veterans and the Seventieth regiment placed a wreath on the Lee statue.
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Richmond
Lee
Seventieth Regiment
Lee Circle
Texas Cities Honor the Day
Texas cities mark General Lee's birthday with events across Dallas Galveston and San Antonio Daughters of the Confederacy and Sons and Daughters groups organize ceremonies in Waco Houston Temple and Palestine while Camp Sterling Price leads in Dallas and Galveston observes with a tea honoring Confederate soldiers.
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Dallas
Lee
Sterling Price
Galveston
the Confederacy
Waco
San Antonio
Shearndel
Houston
Temple
Daughters of the Republic
Lee Birthday Observance in Senate Chamber
In Austin on Monday about 1500 attendees including Confederate home inmates gathered in the senate chamber for General Lee's birthday. Judge Reagan gave the principal address praising the Daughters of the Confederacy for preserving Civil War history. a cross of honor was awarded to 228 Confederate home inmates.
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Austin
Senate
General Lee
Reagan
Daughters of the Confederacy
Lee Birthday Observed in Charleston by Banks Closing
In Charleston on January 20 banks and public offices not under federal control closed to observe General Lee's birthday. That evening Major James F. Hart spoke on "General Robert E. Lee and the Confederacy in History" before a large audience, under the Daughters of the Confederacy.
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Charleston
S. C
Lee
Robert E. Lee
Confederacy
Daughters of the Confederacy
James F. Hart
Hart’s Battery
South Carolina
Virginia
Arkansas Legislatures Adjourn For Lee Birthday Commemoration
Both chambers paused for the afternoon to attend exercises at the Confederate soldiers home honoring General Robert E. Lee's birthday. Similar observances were held later at the First Methodist Episcopal church south.
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Little Rock
Ark
Robert E. Lee
First Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Birth day observed at Lee sites in Virginia
In Lexington on January 20 the birthday of Robert E. Lee, interred at the locality, was observed as a holiday at Washington and Lee University and the Virginia Military Institute.
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Lexington
Robert E. Lee
Washington and Lee University
Virginia Military Institute
Marines Sent to Port Royal from Norfolk Yard
A detachment of thirty five marines will be sent to Port Royal in response to orders received at Norfolk navy yard. The training ship Buffalo has arrived with diphtheria aboard and the crew has been quarantined in tents.
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Norfolk
Navy Yard
Port Royal
Buffalo
Diptheria
Laba Floated After Grounding Off Gibraltar
The North German Lloyd steamer Laba, which grounded on a sand bank off Tamara five miles east of Gibraltar on Sunday morning, has been floated.
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Gibraltar
Laba
Tamara
Rock of Gibraltar
Francisco pugilist Frank McConnell in critical condition
San Francisco report says Frank McConnell the pugilist, knocked out by Joseph Heggerty known as Spider Welch last Thursday evening, is in critical condition with little hope for recovery.
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San Francisco
Frank McConnell
Joseph Heggerty
Spider” Welch
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DeWitt
E. C. DeWitt & Co
Rito
H. B. Dorsey
D. E. Suber’s
McGee’s Feed Store
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Eupion
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Geo. W. Higgs
D.C Zuber
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